The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse

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Fresh, local nutrient-dense fruits vegetables are hard to seek out in winter in cold climates. Growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, bananas, avocados, and other perennials is nearly inconceivable the usage of conventional structures. The solution for millions of backyard and small-scale commercial growers is self-heating solar greenhouses.

The Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the only-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even within the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods. Moreover, an in-depth section covers sustainable ways of heating the greenhouse without fossil fuels, including the usage of thermal mass and storing heat underground with a ground to air heat exchanger.

Variations include attached solar greenhouses, earth sheltered greenhouses, plus integrating hydroponics and aquaponics. More than a dozen case studies from across North The usa provide inspiration and demonstrate specific challenges and solutions for growing year-round in any climate.

Grow your personal food, anytime, anywhere the usage of the power of the sun!

Lindsey Schiller is a greenhouse designer and with co-writer Marc Plinke, co-owner of Ceres Greenhouse Solutions. Lindsey has designed, toured and helped build hundreds of energy-efficient greenhouses spanning small residential structures to acre-size commercial facilities.

Marc Plinke is an inventor-innovator with a PhD in engineering who has focused his engineering mindset on building innovative, energy-efficient and smarter greenhouses, with the intention of enabling people to grow their very own food sustainably and year-round.

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